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CATEGORIES:Community Engagement,Lectures & Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Global Asia Speaker Series\n\nGenerative Contemplation:  Explor
 ing Tibetan Buddhism Meditation across the Past and Future\n\nDavid Germano
 \, Professor of Tibetan Buddhist Studies (University of Virginia)\n\n \n\nM
 arch 6\, 2025  |  5:30 PM\n\nThe Forum\, Marvin Hall \n\n \n\nContemplation
  is found in an impressively diverse array of forms in most\, if not all\, 
 of the world’s spiritual traditions.  Using Tibetan Buddhism contemplation 
 as a reference\, this talk will explore  a new scholarly framework and meth
 odology for understanding contemplation as an innate human generative capac
 ity rooted in  tradition-specific forms of contemplative fluency. Each trad
 ition has its own characteristic lexicons of fundamental building blocks\, 
 grammars for how those elements are sequenced and organized to form composi
 te wholes\, and lifeworld contexts that provide these practices their full 
 dimensionality and meaning. Specific practices then promise particular outc
 omes\, with implicit theories of change accounting for how sustained engage
 ment with those elements organized in those forms as shaped by these lifewo
 rlds produce such outcomes. The presentation will use effortlessness in Tib
 etan Buddhist meditation as a case study to explore these issues. The secon
 d part of the presentation will then explore how such a generative analysis
  of contemplation can inform the fashioning of a contemplative design proce
 ss and toolkit that might better guide the creation of new forms of contemp
 lation situated in specific social contexts. It will conclude by exploring 
 various concrete applications of such design work in scientific\, technolog
 ical\, secular\, and religious settings.\n\n \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nDavid
  Germano teaches and researches Tibetan and Buddhist Studies at the Univers
 ity of Virginia\, where he is a professor in the Department of Religious St
 udies\, as well as directs the Tibet Center.  His scholarship focuses on Ti
 betan esoteric traditions of Buddhist narrative\, thought\, and practice\, 
 particularly in the Great Perfection tradition (rdzogs chen).  He has lived
  for years in Tibetan communities\, where he has studied Buddhism and worke
 d extensively on programs of community engagement\, participatory knowledge
  creation\, and digital technology adapted for support and preservation of 
 Tibetan forms of knowledge. He currently supports Tibetan entrepreneurship 
 and the Tibetan and Himalayan Library. From 2011-2023\, he directed the Con
 templative Sciences Center as he worked on educational reform recentering i
 nstitutions on the facilitation and support of the flourishing of students 
 as whole individuals in the face of the crisis of wellbeing. He currently l
 eads the Generative Contemplation Initiative\, which is developing a new sc
 holarly model and methodology for understanding Tibetan Buddhist contemplat
 ion\, exploring microphenomenological research\, creating a contemplative d
 esign process and toolkit\, and designing new contemplative applications fo
 r specific social contexts.\n\n \n\nSponsored by the KU Center for East Asi
 an Studies and Department of Religion
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LOCATION:Marvin Hall Forum 
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SUMMARY:Generative Contemplation: Exploring Tibetan Buddhism Meditation
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